The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-04
Artistic Decorationa

New York Commercial Advertiser.
The wood OF the California sycamore has late
ly come into extreme favor in cabinet-work Of
all sorts
Hungarian embroidery in priematie effects.
showing all the hues Of the rain bow is the latest
thing in hangings
Wrought iron has entirely superseded brass
for articles of household use, in which an artis<
tic appearance is desired.
There is q very silly craze just now for white
and gilt furniture. It looks we'll only in rooms
specially decorated to receive it.
Handsome lamps take the place of gas entire "
in the show" rooms of handsome houses. They
necessitate an extra housemaid.
The old classic patterns in which scroll work
and acanthus leaves figure prominently are
now much used for decorating handsome furri-
ture.
So-called India chairs popular. They are
made of natural bamboo. the pieces tied toeeth-
or with thongs of leather and draped with rough
and very brighs-colored fabrics
The whilom craze for Japanese decorations
has rather died out. but bed room or boudoir
furnished and ornamented entirely in the Japan
csc fashion is always thing of beauty.
Thin screens of wood cut into intricate ara
besques are now often applied to the uppe part
of the universal square door and window frames.
thus giving them any curved outline that may
be desired.
The .sneirloom business" is not SO fiourishine
as it was, and ancestral clocks and spinning
wheels. purchased at four Eve times their
worth. are relocated once more to atEics and
storerooms.
Veneers of the various hard woods are now
made. and readily be applied over the
painted wood work of an ordinary room as to
give it the rich appearance always associated
with 'hard wood finish"
Sash curtains of rich but thin materials, sus-
pended from slight rod at the top of the win
dow frame, answer all the purposes of the ordi-
nary roller shade, and are much prettier to look
at either from within without.
If you can find in your garrett or lumber-room
oldfashioned mahogany chest of drawers re-
joice and be glad. Polished and finished off
with much brass they are now taking the place
of the regulation Bullets in fashionable dining
rooms.
No matter how handsome the pieces are individ~
ual,y. they lose all effect when crowded together
A room in which its owner took great pride wak
once complimented thus by a friend of similar
bad taste. CHOW lovely, II looks inst iiha
80 cent store" And it did.
Oldfashioned" rooms rather fad just
now. They furnished Just az handsome
rooms were furnished before the aesthetic craze
regulation places-over piano and sofa-cut-
glass chandeliers with tinkling drops, heavy cur
tans looped back over lace Ones and all the othef
adjuncts of the "best parlor" of the past.
Strange though it may seem. such rooms have
certain solid stateliness of their own, and rathe.
relieve the eye, wearied with the wilderness OF
decoration that marks the modern drawing
room.
beautiful and enduring work for women whG
can paint. If their drawing is ratheL
weak, is making artistic friezes for the walls Oh
their pet rooms. Strips of cartridge paper of q
proper tint should be used for a ground which,
after the painting is finished. should be smoothly
mounted thin. firm cotton, and fastened in
place On the wall by means of moulding strips
top and bottom. The upper branches Of
rather high growing trees and shrubs should b
chosen for these designs rather than flowers. So
that the sprays will appear somewhere about the
height where the eye is accustomed to see their
originals.